Building 3 Comps need help with parts.

[Sinkaitos]

Hey, its me again, Im working on building 3 PC's for purely multiboxing, I've decided to get a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143113 for the graphics card, as It seems strong enough to run wow with a few addons, and no FPS/MS problems. now im having trouble figuring out the other parts, anybody have any ideas/tips? Im trying to keep them to $400 a piece, not including monitors/keyboards/mouses etc. im having MOST trouble with the motherboard and power supply. any advice would be greatly appreciated as I want to get back to multiboxing with good FPs/MS so i can enjoy the experience again. Thanks! :thumbsup:

[Herc130]

The onboard graphics options available now are actually very capable. Normally I buy intel and nvidea, but in the realm of intergrated graphics, AMD is far ahead. So for my own 6 box build, I choose to go AMD just because of the 780G chipset, which has an HD3200 IGP. 2 of the boxes I am using now use nvidea 6100 IGP's and plays EQ well enough without me lowering settings much at all. I would assume WoW will run even better on it considering the lower poly count. A 6100 IGP is much weaker then the HD3000, so I think quiet possibly, the HD3200IGP will not only do well enough for me to box in group situations, but probably do well enough for me to bring the boxxed accounts to 72 man raids if I wanted.

I would get this or a similar mATX 780G mobo from whatever brand you like best

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186141


This CPU or even just a sub $40 one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103211

Ram

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

HDD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136010

PSU, 500w is more then enough even if you choose to put a vid card on it and this one is 80+ efficiency

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007



Case

whatever you like, prices can be as low as $20 to whatever


OS's

Get a technet subscription.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx

There are coupon codes for the subscription, search for them. I got my sub for $99. Even if you end up paying the full price of $349, this will entitle you to 10 liscence's of every MS OS. No joke, you will get 10 keys for Windows XP Pro 32 or 64, 10 for Vista (including ultimate) 32 or 64, Server 2008 and even ten keys for Office 2007/8 and a ton of other stuff. Really good deal, all ligit....it comes from MS themselves. So, assuming you end up paying the full price for the sub, it would be $117 per OS, which is @ what you would pay at newegg anyway, but going this way gives you far more.

Think that is easily under $400.

If you should decide that the HD3200 IGP is not powerful enough, then add a vid card at that time. I'd go with a 4550 or so myself. Think it's around an 8600GTS and is priced about the same. But see how well the HD3200 IGP does for you first, because as I already said, teh NV6100 IGP does well enough for me to box with and the HD3200 is far more powerful.

[Sinkaitos]

WOW! you sir, win at life. well thank you very much for all of that info, but theres 1 more thing I need to know. even if i get the integrated one, is it possible to chuck an SLI one in if its not strong enough, specifically the one i linked earlier? if so I may just get the graphics cards anyways, throw one In my current machine, and just have the others as backup.